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Illustrated Guide to Growing Raspberries | MOTHER EARTH NEWS

The raspberry, with its botanical name Rubus idaeus, belongs to the rose family, which includes around 3,500 species. The raspberry is a hardy, deciduous climbing shrub that comes in a variety of colors, including red, yellow, purple, and black. The raspberry bush can bear fruits twice a year. The plants are self-pollinating, but wind, honeybees, and other insects also help the plant to bear plenty of fruits after flowering.
Raspberries are very easy to grow in almost all climates and soils, and actually are the ideal plant for gardeners and farmers across the United States. They are known to grow wild in many areas, and therefore can flourish and bear lots of delicious berries without much work.

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The Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm by Peg Schafer: a Book Review

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If you are a gardener or farmer in North America thinking of growing Asian medicinal herbs, mostly Chinese, The Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm: a Cultivator’s Guide to Small-Scale Organic Herb Production was written for you. It’s both a how-to and reference guide. If you consume or prescribe Chinese medicinal herbs and want to understand why your growing them regeneratively is crucial (hopefully you do!), chapters one, two, and five are for you. This substantial book is colorful, beautifully laid-out, and easy to read.
The popularity of Chinese medicine has exploded all over the world. Demand for Chinese medicinal herbs has outstripped supply of plants harvested traditionally, ie. from the wild and in an ecologically renewable manner. This is partly due to sheer volume of clients, but also to dwindling intact wild ecosystems in China and other countries traditionally harvesting them. Supply is also down due to urbanization, pollution, over-harvesting, and climate change--like everywhere.

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Illustrated Guide to Growing Tomatoes | MOTHER EARTH NEWS

Everything you need to know about growing tomatoes, from varieties, planting seeds indoors, to transplanting, caring, harvesting, storing and preserving.

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Gardener's Winter Ritual: Seed Selection, Catalog Combing and Garden Planning (with List of Favored Seed Companies)

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Gardenerâs Winter Ritual: Seed Selection, Catalog Combing and Garden Planning (with List of Favored Seed Companies)
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In January and February, with holiday traditions celebrated and New Year’s resolutions ushering in a new cycle, we collectively exhale. And despite the bleak pallet and chilled days, the clean-slate months of a new year present gardeners solid ground on which to lay plans and hopes for a successful growing season. While the garden sleeps, the gardener schemes and dreams.
Now is the time we relish the ritual of seed selection and garden planning. We watch our mailboxes and wring our hands in anticipation of seed catalogs and when they arrive, we welcome them like old friends. The spectrum of colors alone is enough to brighten our days. Striking photos of thriving plants stir our spirits, evoke visions and invite us to reminisce. Each year, despite the bounty or heartbreak of previous harvests, seed catalogs provide us with page after page of beginner’s sight. They renew us with the promise of this year’s garden.

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5 Unique Open-Pollinated Sunflower Varieties to Grow

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It’s easy to see why the sunflower is one of the world’s favorite flowers. They’re easy to grow, have easy-to-save seeds, and are undeniably cheerful in the garden. Open-pollinated types are magnets for bees in the spring and summer, and for birds as the seeds develop. Here are 5 unique open-pollinated sunflower varieties to consider planting in your garden this year.
'Lemon Queen' Sunflower
'Lemon Queen' is an heirloom sunflower variety with lemon-yellow petals and rich chocolate-colored centers - a combination that bees find absolutely irresistible. The plants tend to grow about 6 feet tall in average conditions. 'Lemon Queen' is a branching type of flower, where each plant can bear on to two dozen flowers.

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Diy Tomato Cages and Using Them Seasonally | MOTHER EARTH NEWS

Making tomato cages from concrete reinforcement wire and using them in all seasons

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Everything You Need to Know About Garden Soil Types

Photo by Michael Feldmann
Soil is much more than simple dirt. On close inspection, garden soil is a complex mixture of mineral particles, organic materials, moisture, living organisms and chemical nutrients. Different soil types contain different amounts of minerals and nutrients, providing different levels of plant life improvement. The quality of crops depends on the top soil, the nutritional value in which they grow.
In order for the crop harvested from the fields to be rich and healthy, a farmer would do well to know the basic properties of the soil, its types and preparation rules before planting plants. There are over 20,000 soil varieties worldwide. But the most common and important types of soils are six main groups of soils: clay, sandy, silty, peaty, chalky and loamy. Each of them has its own good properties, and it is important to know them in order to make the best choice and get the most for your garden.

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Growing Early Spring Lettuce | MOTHER EARTH NEWS

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Hoophouse lettuce Green Forest and Red Salad Bowl. Photo by Wren Vile
I have written posts for Mother Earth about winter lettuce and Growing Lettuce Year Round, and I have a year (May to April) of postings about suitable lettuce varieties for each month on my website Sustainable Market Farming. The Lettuce Year Round article is mostly about scheduling your sowings to provide an unbroken supply of lettuce, no shortages or gluts, using succession planting techniques. Here I’m going to focus on varieties and strategies that work best early in the year.
I like to sow four lettuce varieties each time (for the attractive harvests, and to reduce the risks if one variety bolts or suffers disease): at least one red and one romaine. If you choose varieties with different numbers of days to maturity, you will stretch the harvest period (and get more choice each time you harvest).

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Seed Savvy: Keep Track of Your Stash | MOTHER EARTH NEWS

Utilize a seed inventory to keep track of the seeds you've saved and to save money. I track replenishment, seed expiration dates, harvest dates and more.

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Grow Up!: Vertical Gardening | MOTHER EARTH NEWS

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Photo by Unsplash/Cherry Laithang
The first step in the permaculture design process is observation on site. In the northern hemisphere, creating thermal mass to the garden’s north provides a warming effect.
The northern edge of the garden also has the opportunity to house a vertical strutter that can bolster harvests for small spaces. We erected a vertical wall where we grow herbs on the vertical in pockets, and artichokes and Jerusalem artichokes atop the wooden structure. Our garden receives approximately 150 pounds of herbs and produce on this added urban garden vertical system.
Photo by Joshua Burman Thayer
Increase Edges and Margins

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